Federico Paredes-Vallés, Kirk W. Y. Scheper, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E. de Croon Event cameras have recently gained significant traction …
Category: Research
At ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) 2023, MAVLab presented AvoidBench, a high-fidelity vision-based obstacle avoidance benchmarking suite for multi-rotors. Motivation Vision-based obstacle …
Researchers from MAVLab and collaborators have developed a new theory on how flying drones and insects can estimate the gravity direction. Whereas drones typically use …
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots Small autonomous mobile robots, such as drones, rovers, and legged robots, promise to perform a wide range of tasks, from …
Jesse J. Hagenaars*, Federico Paredes-Vallés*, Guido C.H.E. de Croon The field of neuromorphic computing promises extremely low-power and low-latency sensing and processing. …
A gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site is difficult to find. Human firefighters cannot see the gas, so they have …
Optical flow for small flying robots Flying insects heavily rely on optical flow for visual navigation and flight control. Roboticists have endowed small flying robots …
A drone that can fly sustainably for long distances over land and water, and can land almost anywhere, will be able to serve …
Neuromorphic processors like Loihi offer a promising alternative to conventional computing modules for endowing constrained systems like micro air vehicles (MAVs) with robust, …
F. Paredes-Valles, G. C. H. E. de Croon Event cameras are novel vision sensors that sample, in an asynchronous fashion, brightness increments with low latency …